The TV press commentators on FOX claimed (five times in 1 broadcast) that Bergdahl's TEARS were probably from "squinting" because of the harsh light
of the sun due to the fact that he had been blindfolded. HE WAS NOT BLINDFOLDED (why would they blindfold a friend?) and he can be seen in the video
wiping away the tears - the effing tears were from his SADNESS at leaving his 'comrades in arms'. He was NOT their prisoner - he was their
collaborator which is most evident as the Taliban approach the van to say their farewells !!! That scenario would have been impossible had the
situation been otherwise.

When he deserted, the Army didn't go on a rescue mission.
They had orders to shoot him if they saw him.
That's how sure they were that he had defected and was aiding the enemy.

Ahhhhh maybe that explains the signing of the non-disclosure documents.

From another earlier response to a similar post -

[I've been] asking this question in my mind over and over - why was everyone who witnessed Bowe
Bergdahl's activity right from the very beginning - keep in mind this was his second (or more) AWOL incident - required to sign non-disclosure
statements? Being a former military man I happen to know that this is extremely unusual because AWOL/deserters are never protected in this way unless
there is something really DEEP going on such as what we saw happening in Benghazi between the executive branch, the military and the CIA.

Its a very important question the answer to which could expose the entire operation. Then of course no one is really asking these kinds of questions -
surely not the media. Then we might want to start digging a little deeper into Bergdahl's father as a Talibani Muslim working as a CIA operative.

These are the only kinds of questions that we should be asking if we want to even begin to have the slightest clue as to what's going on with these
traitors - from the alleged president all the way on down to the alleged soldier on the ground traitor Bergdahl and his dirt-bag old man who both are
collaborators between Obama and the Taliban.

This means that the White House will be working quickly to get Sgt. Andrew
Tahmooressi released from a Mexican jail too..........right?

I mean here we have someone who did NOT walk off from their post willinging, but was instead arrested while on leave, who is being held against his
will. Who by some accounts is being tortured and treated quite badly in that jail. Who was not actively seeking out people who mean to do others harm,
but instead simply made a wrong turn and ended up on the wrong side of the US/Mexican border.

My source, who had been up the previous night on a separate raid, was “shaken awake” on the afternoon Bergdahl
disappeared. “We were told there was a DUSTWUN (Duty Status Whereabouts Unknown), and to pack for a three-hour assault. We received a brief that
Bergdahl was missing, and we were going to get him. … Sometime after dark we boarded CH-47′s to assault an objective thought to contain Bergdahl.
We never made it to the landing zone, as the helicopters took very heavy fire on approach to the objective and had to divert.”
The soldier’s Focused Targeting Force (FTF) platoon was not told that it was being diverted to OP MEST. When they landed, he said, “We thought we
were in enemy territory, so I recall my friends and I screaming ‘Vehicles’ and preparing to engage with the LAW and SMAW-D rockets we carried. We
soon realized the lights were from RG-31 and Maxpro MRAPs, friendly vehicles, and de-escalated the situation. The CH-47′s had dropped us off at OP
MEST and did not relay that information.”
With that near-disaster over, the soldier recounted: “We averaged 18 to 22 kilometers a day on foot, clearing house to house, room to room looking
for Bergdahl. … We even went as far as rappelling down wells and crawling through tunnels to look for him.” The standard procedure for recapturing
Bergdahl was not “normal,” the soldier noted. “He was very good with knives, and trained to throw and fight hand-to-hand with knives. We did not
know the mental state of Bergdahl at the time. All we knew was he left on his own, he caused us lots of hardship, and if we entered a room and saw
him, we would put him down because he could attack us.”
On the morning of July 4, 2009, the soldier recalled, “we assaulted several objectives looking for Bergdahl. … We executed the mission without
incident and were waiting to be exfiltrated. Our aircraft were in sight when they turned and flew in the opposite direction. At the time we did not
know why, but we were stranded. The enemy took advantage of Bergdahl’s capture and attacked numerous outposts that morning.”

U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl waits in a pick-up truck before he is freed at the Afghan border, in this still image from video released June 4,
2014.

Please be aware that the deserter/collaborator is seen here wiping away tears of sorrow on his departure as he leaves
his very close friends - the leadership of theTaliban.

Opening paragraph(s)

In the days and hours leading up to the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl last week, his Taliban captors in Pakistan
prepared for a big sendoff. Those selected to physically hand Bergdahl over to U.S. officials at a pre-arranged location on the other side of the
border in Afghanistan rehearsed the messages they wanted to convey to the American people. A videographer was assigned to cover the event, for
propaganda purposes. And those closest to Bergdahl commissioned a local tailor to make him a set of the local tunic and trousers in white, which,
given as a gift, denotes a gesture of respect.

“You know we are also human beings and have hearts in our bodies,” a senior Taliban commander affiliated with the Haqqani network, which was
holding Bergdahl captive, tells TIME. “We are fighting a war against each other, in which [the Americans] kill us and we kill them. But we did
whatever we could to make [Bergdahl] happy.”

The commander, who has been known to TIME for several years and has consistently supplied reliable information about Bergdahl’s captivity, is not
authorized by his superiors to speak the media, so he has asked not to be identified by name. The commander spoke to TIME by telephone from an
undisclosed location in Afghanistan.

Bergdahl, who was the only known remaining U.S. prisoner of war from the long conflict in Afghanistan, had learned basic Pashto during his
incarceration, and had made several friends among his Taliban captors, according to the commander. The tunic set, along with the woven scarf that can
also be worn as a turban, but is draped across Bergdahl’s shoulders in the Taliban video documenting his release, was a parting gift designed to
demonstrate no personal ill will, says the commander: “We wanted him to return home with good memories.”

Bergdahl’s release, as part of the first prisoner exchange between the United States and the Taliban in 13 years of war, was the culmination of a
two-and-a-half-year process marred by Taliban intransigence and Afghan government meddling that eventually saw the near simultaneous transfer of five
top-level Taliban officials from detention in Guantanamo bay to a form of house arrest in Qatar. The outcome has sparked fierce criticism from
Republicans in Congress.

Conservatives have shown they can be the biggest hypocrites and have the shortest memories of any political affiliation around:

George W. Bush released over 500 Gitmo "detainees" - one of whom has been linked to the Benghazi attack. The outrage from
Conservatives over this? Zilch!

When all else fails: CHARACTER ASSASSINATION!

Let's not forget how McCain, the biggest critic of this, got his own freedom back - The US quit the entire war and gave in to communist North Vietnam
to get POWs back in "Operation Homecoming" - THOUSANDS of Viet Cong were sent back to VietNam to continue the fight against the USA.

Looks as though the GOP Puppet Masters can't have any of their party members showing some compassion for a returning POW: notice the tweets were
deleted within minutes once the puppet masters saw them.

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Talk about hypocrisy ... this was McCain just a few months ago:

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And hypocrite of the day:

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And the last word belongs to:

Sorry, but American politics are as diseased and sick as it's ever been - blame the corporate billionaires using dark money to keep the American
people so off-balance they can't attempt to interfere with corporatism and profiteering. Seriously - American conservatives are now ATTACKING an
American POW, just as a means of waging a proxy political fight against a liberal president. Disgusting.

If I can butt in: Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi is not a POW. He drove into Mexico carrying firearms - very illegal thing to do. He's held there on a
criminal charge. Soldiers/sailors who get arrested, even overseas, on criminal complaints are not POWs. The fact this escapes you amazes me.

Incredible that now our nation people are in more danger than ever with further kidnappings thanks to the President stupidity and this piece of crap
deserter is crying because he is losing his friends.

Congressman Steve Stockman (R-TX 36) transmitted a letter to President Barack Obama Thursday asking if the Obama administration authorized any
payment to the Haqqani Network terrorist group in exchange for U.S. Army Spc. Bowe Bergdahl.

This article allows us a deeper insight into the mind of B Bergdahl and from the looks of it the CIA had been tracking Bergdahl for several years and
was fully aware of his traitorous way and its now impossible for the Obama regime to remain in denial as to the true nature of the character we are
dealing with here. He was obviously a risk to his fellow soldiers before and after his desertion and collaboration with the enemy.
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• EXCLUSIVE:SECRET DOCUMENTS OBTAINED BY FOX NEWS reveal that Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl at one point during his captivity converted to Islam, fraternized
openly with his Taliban captors and declared himself a 'mujahid,' or warrior for Islam, although after an attempted escape he was confined to a metal
cage.
• Taliban threatened to kill Bergdahl? Hill sources skeptical of latest reason for keeping deal secret
• Bergdahl improving, but yet to speak to parents, Pentagon officials say | Obama digs in on Taliban-for-Bergdahl trade
• Taliban reportedly 'encouraged' to kidnap more US soldiers | OPINION: How do Obama, Reagan's records compare?

Opening paragraphs:

U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl at one point during his captivity converted to Islam, fraternized openly with his captors
and declared himself a "mujahid," or warrior for Islam, according to secret documents prepared on the basis of a purported eyewitness account and
obtained by Fox News.

The reports indicate that Bergdahl's relations with his Haqqani captors morphed over time, from periods of hostility, where he was treated very much
like a hostage, to periods where, as one source told Fox News, "he became much more of an accepted fellow" than is popularly understood. He even
reportedly was allowed to carry a gun at times.
The documents show that Bergdahl at one point escaped his captors for five days and was kept, upon his re-capture, in a metal cage, like an animal. In
addition, the reports detail discussions of prisoner swaps and other attempts at a negotiated resolution to the case that appear to have commenced as
early as the fall of 2009.

The reports are rich in on-the-ground detail -- including the names and locations of the Haqqani commanders who ran the 200-man rotation used to guard
the Idaho native -- and present the most detailed view yet of what Bergdahl's life over the past five years has been like. These real-time dispatches
were generated by the Eclipse Group, a shadowy private firm of former intelligence officers and operatives that has subcontracted with the Defense
Department and prominent corporations to deliver granular intelligence on terrorist activities and other security-related topics, often from
challenging environments in far-flung corners of the globe.

The group is run by Duane R. ("Dewey") Clarridge, a former senior operations officer for the Central Intelligence Agency in the 1980s best known for
having been indicted for lying to Congress about his role in the tangled set of events that became known as the Iran-Contra scandal. He was pardoned
by the first President Bush in December 1992 while on trial. A New York Times profile of Clarridge published in January 2011 disclosed the contractual
relationship Eclipse had with the Pentagon, through subcontractors, and reported further that Clarridge's activities had included efforts to help find
Bergdahl.

Clarridge told Fox News his group enjoyed a subcontract from U.S. Central Command, or CENTCOM, headquartered at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida,
from November 2009 through May 31, 2010, and that after the contract was terminated, he invested some $50,000 of his own money to maintain the network
of informants that had yielded such detailed accounts of Bergdahl's status.

Clarridge further told Fox News that by the end of 2010, he had furnished at least 13 of these detailed SITREPs, or situation reports, that his
network generated about Bergdahl to Brig. Gen. Robert P. Ashley Jr., who in April 2010 was named director of intelligence, at the J-2 level, at
CENTCOM. Clarridge said Eclipse SITREP # 3023, dated Aug. 23, 2012 -- in which a member of the Haqqani network, said to be close to Bergdahl's
captors, reported that the American prisoner had declared himself a "mujahid" -- was among the reports provided to Ashley.

Article II
of the U.S. Constitution vests the executive power of the United States in the president and charges him with the execution of federal law,

Article II, Section 3 states that the president “shall take care that the Laws be faithfully executed.”

The Constitution defines treason in Article 3, Section 3, Clause 1:
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and
Comfort.

If Bergdahl is convicted or treason...then,, President Obama,,has indeed given, Aid and Comfort,, to the enemy.

Nice attempt at introducing US partisanship. The propaganda pictures might have convinced me had they not been so inaccurate and misleading.

This is, apparently, what partisan hacks do when they can't do anything else.

Why is it so hard to step up like a man and make the claim your boy did the right thing? Why, instead, do you have to reach back into history, and try
to cast aspersions onto the other side's boy? Could it be that you don't truly believe YOURS DID do the right thing, and have to try to mask
that by attempting to hide it behind the other guy's actions?

News flash: if you believe the Other Guy did the wrong thing, that doesn't make yours right when you try to justify his actions by using what
you believe to be the Other Guy's WRONG actions....

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